When it comes to keeping websites secure, what we see is that companies are trying to sell people services of limited to no security value while important security practices go undone in many cases. One of the basic measures that needs to be taken to do that is to keep software running on websites up to date as that prevents known security vulnerabilities from being exploited, unfortunately that often doesn’t happen. In the past we looked at data showing this was true for the likes of Drupal, Joomla, and others. Yesterday, Revive Adserver put out a post showing what versions of their software are in use and they tell a similar story.
About 56 percent of the active installations of Revive Adserver are running either version 3.0.2 or 3.0.5:
Source: http://www.revive-adserver.com/blog/quick-adoption-of-revive-adserver-v3-2-0/
Version 3.0.5 contains two moderate severity security issues that were fixed in versions 3.0.6 and 3.1.0, which were released in December. Versions 3.0.2 contains an additional moderate severity security issue that was fixed version 3.0.5, which was released a year ago. We haven’t seen any major issues when upgrading from these versions so there isn’t any excuse not having done this by now.
If you haven’t been keeping Revive Adserver up to date now you should do that now (if need someone to do that for you, we can take care of that for you). For anyone who still hasn’t upgraded from OpenX you really need to do that now since that has more severe known security vulnerabilities in it at this point and the upgrade to Revive Adserver is relatively easy.